Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey